Democrats behaving like a movement
From
coverage of a Sirota speech:
In the Q&A, Sirota said one of the most important things I think we
all need to hear. "We're starting to behave like a movement." I think
sometimes we don't give ourselves enough credit for what we're all
helping to build. We're in year 3 or 4 of what was a 40 year movement
for Republicans to get themselves where they are today. And they don't
have the benefit of competency on their side. Behaving like a movement
isn't only about building progressive idea factories and media
machines. It's about sending messages to incumbents that they can't
damage the ideological brand and still remain unchallenged. Sirota made
a nice parallel between the Lamont campaign and 2004's Pat Toomey-Arlen
Specter primary. That primary wasn't only for Specter, but all the
other "moderates" in the Republican Party, a message that they will
face the same difficulties if they step out of line. We're not there
yet with our internal primary battles, but we are starting to push a
movement politics instead of a party politics.
Also, there is a new blog that will have updates on all of the liveblogging going on tonight at the Connecticut Democratic Party Convention.
Livebloggers
include:
Get the popcorn ready!
Posted at 12:22 pm by blogswarm
